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Quotes About Election

John McCain has not been president of the United States. He ran. He ran a spirited campaign. We lost. I hated to see us lose, but there were a lot of things working against us.
~ Richard Shelby
A million dollars in the presidential election is a spit in the ocean. It's not a lot of money.
~ Kenneth Langone
The Trumps were elected because of or in spite of their wealth - depending on how you feel about the First Family. They never misrepresented themselves. They have always been honest about who they are.
~ Rachel Campos-Duffy
The most powerful words uttered in our democracy are the people have spoken.
~ Raphael Warnock
One of the nuisances of the ballot is that when the oracle has spoken you never know what it means.
~ Lord Salisbury
We will vote for the special interests and say lots of luck but, you're being voted out of power.
~ Donald Trump
Sooner will a camel pass through a needle's eye than a great man be "discovered" by an election.
~ Adolf Hitler
Democracy is all about not electing the wrong man-eating lizard.
~ Douglas Adams
If the people should elect, they will never fail to prefer some man of distinguished character, or services; some man, if he might so speak of continental reputation.
~ Gouverneur Morris
Man is nothing: he hath a free will to go to hell, but none to go to heaven, till God worketh in him to will and to do his good pleasure.
~ George Whitefield
A black man will be elected President of the United States. I'm sorry, that's in the year 10,000.
~ Chris Rock
The natural man cannot but resist the Lord's offering to help him; yet that resistance is infallibly overcome in the elect, by converting grace.
~ Thomas Boston
Brexit was a dress rehearsal for the US presidential election of 2016. As in Britain, so in the United States, the political establishment took it for granted that the old ways would suffice.
~ Niall Ferguson
Trump won 'Trumpland
~ Niall Ferguson
After the deaths of some pontiffs, Osporco, a Roman, succeeded to the papacy; but on account of his unseemly appellation, he took the name of Sergius, and this was the origin of that change of names which the popes adopt upon their election to the pontificate.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
When Mohamed Morsi was elected president of Egypt in 2012, many in the country, including me, were hopeful that he would become a democratic president for all Egyptians - not only for the Muslim Brotherhood.
~ Ahmed Zewail
As an actor, I am delighted that Innocent has busted the myth that a film star would never win an election in Kerala.
~ Balachandra Menon
I am not naive or stupid enough to imagine that people are just going to look at my face and vote for me.
~ Urmila Matondkar
The narrative often from Democrats and the media is that Republicans don't think the Russians have meddled in our election. They did.
~ John Ratcliffe
During the election campaign of 2000, it was generally thought that then-governor Bush didn't know much about foreign policy or national security affairs, and that Colin Powell would lead on that front, while the president's main concern would be domestic.
~ Elliott Abrams
If we're going to win in 2016, we need a consistent conservative: someone who has been a fiscal conservative, a social conservative, a national security conservative.
~ Ted Cruz
There wasn't a Scottish nationalist MP elected at any general election when we were outside the E.U.
~ Michael Gove
Most famously, Yeltsin made a pact with the oligarchs before the 1996 presidential election. Communist
~ Chris Miller
So, from what you guys are saying, there are thousands of humans walking around without souls?' 'Millions, probably,' Charlie said. 'Maybe that explains the last election.
~ Christopher Moore